 | Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay |  |
I. Speak Now for Peace
Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen,
Stand now for peace (though anger breaks your heart),
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen.
Stand now for peace (though anger breaks your heart),
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen.
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Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone,
Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood,
It is heard tonight by every senate and throne.
Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood,
It is heard tonight by every senate and throne.
Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men
Threatens tonight to sweep the whole of the earth,
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.
Threatens tonight to sweep the whole of the earth,
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.
| Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay | |